A rare piece of Lebanese philatelie has set a new benchmark, achieving the highest price ever recorded for a Lebanese philatelic set of stamps. These are the famous five sheets of the stamps of the 1943 Medical Conference in Beirut unperforated and without Arab overprint “المؤتمر الطبي العربي السادس 1944“ [Sixth Arab Medical Conference 1944] […]
On 4 August 2020, at 6:07 PM, I remember being in my office in Jdeidet El Matn, a suburb of Beirut, with my friend H. M. when the explosion occurred. My race to Beirut and the aftermath is a personal and family chronicle etched in my memory. The explosion killed 218 people and injured 7,000. […]
A discussion with my friend Albert Massaad led me to delve into the curious topic of the anomalous difference in width between the 5 Piestre red of the Cedars stamps issue and the others four values which have a smaller but uniform width on all four sides. To be clear, these are the stamps issued […]
The Cyprus Philatelic Society invited the LAP to a meeting which took place on 21 and 22 October 2023 in Soloneion Book Centre, Strovolos Nicosia. In addition to the members of the two philatelic societies and Bill Hedley President of FEPA, was also present Mrs Vasiliki Kassianidou Minister of Culture, Mr. Alexis Vafeades Minister of […]
The Alpe Adria exhibition held in Tarvisio from 20 to 24 September 2023, hosted the annual FEPA congress on 23 September, naturally the LAP participated with the President Billy Karam and the Vice President Bernardo Longo. Billy awarded a medal by FEPA President Bill Hedley. Bernardo, Billy, Costas Athanasiou (Cyprus P.S. President), Costas Chazapis (FEPA’s […]
I wrote this article in 2021 and it appeared in “The Levant” the ONEPS newspaper in issue 3 of September 2021.
In the last philatelic exhibition Emirates 2022 held in Dubai from 19 to 23 January, I had the lucky opportunity to see book “The Mohamed Aly Post (MAP) The True Origin of the Egyptian Vice Royal Post” by Mahmoud Ramadan presented in competition book class by the Egyptian commissioner Ahmed Youssef who, noting my interest, […]
No, this is not a thriller movie but an indication to characterize the discovery concerning a new type of the famous overprinted issues centered on the 10’000 Lebanese Lira stamp. According to various catalogs, this stamp was issued on 11 May 1998 to commemorate His Holiness John Paul II’s visit to Lebanon on 10 and […]
This article is inspired by observation of the great interest regarding an envelope as lot 41, starting at 700 Euro and sold for 1’100 Euros by Cedarstamps auction house in the 23 November 2019 sale (fig 1). fig 1 It is an envelope most probably written and sent by an officer of the French navy […]
by Bernardo Longo The purpose of this article is to show the postage use of so-called “Flueron d’Alep” stamps. For the complete philatelic description of this stamps issue I leave the task to some other brave collector. A series consisting of nine French stamps overprinted by second Gedeon type “O.M.F. Syrie” and new […]
